"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."
"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."
"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."